Yes! Thank you KDF. Netcat was exactly what I was looking for! Is there a handy internet acronym for "thank you for figuring out what I was trying to ask, even though I was too dense to have really thought the question through..." ?
Anyway, this is now working perfectly for me for triggering a "scan for new music": Code: -------------------- echo rescan | nc -w 1 slimsever_ip 9090 -------------------- Mentioning Netcat in the CLI documentation would be handy for those of us who grew up in the dos/windows world and have only limited Linux experience. As it is, the CLI doc only mentions telnet. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38524 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss